‘Gangland execution’ leaves four dead in Cyprus holiday resort popular with Brits

HOLIDAYMAKERS cowered in terror as four people were shot dead at a family restaurant crowded with Brits  in Cyprus.

The shootout at a packed restaurant in the resort of Ayia Napa had the hallmarks of a gangland revenge attack, police said.

Masked gunmen let rip with a Kalashnikov and pistols at a table where a local club owner was dining with a cop, his wife and their two children.

The kids aged 14 and 13 survived by diving under a table, but their parents died along with their host.

The businessman’s three bodyguards, seated at a nearby table, fired back — killing one attacker as two others fled.

Phanos Kalopsidiotis, 51, was killed along with his wife Skevi, 39 and Elias Hadjiefthymiou, 46.

The bloodbath, which also left two wounded, comes four years after six of the tycoon’s bodyguards were gunned down in the same street.

In 2014 his father Yiannos was murdered outside his home not far from Ayia Napa.

The resort’s nightclubs have long been popular with British and Russian tourists.

Local businesses have been hoping for a bumper year as jihadi bombings hit bookings to competitor destinations like Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.

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